Countryside and Burr Elementary Schools and Newton South Preschool will host site-based racial literacy programming for students ages 3-8 years old and their caregivers in Fall 2024 in partnership with Story Starters
Research shows that educational equity in younger ages is most likely to be successful when parents are involved and community norms are strong. This project would target the critical developmental window — ages 3-8 — when parents have a significant impact on their children’s beliefs about race. All children benefit from belonging to anti-racist communities, since they acquire racial knowledge from community standards and conventions. (Hirschfeld, 2012). , a Newton nonprofit.